Re: scrollbar alternative

[Leo]

On 2010-03-15 17:28 +0000, David Engster wrote:
> To me, the GTK scrollbars always behaved a bit strange in this regard,
> anyway. For example, I think scrollbars should be hidden when there is
> nothing to scroll, this way giving you an immediate optical hint that
> you're currently seeing everything there is. But in Emacs, you can
> always scroll the window until (window-start) reaches (point-max).
>
> Therefore, I also disabled the scrollbar and now use some code to get a
> scrollbar-like display in the mode-line. I know there's
> size-indication-mode, but I find an information like "13% of 2.8k" not
> very helpful.

Does your code just show the percentage in a fancy face?

I turned off scrollbar too and use fringe arrows and percentage on the
modeline. I tried your code but didn't notice any difference.

Leo